UPCOMING EVENTS

Friday 25th July Cut off for 2015

Enrolments

Monday 28th July P&C Meeting 1.15pm

Wednesday 30th July NAIDOC Day

Tuesday 5th August School Council Meeting

Thursday 7th August AssemblyLeaders

Thursday 7th August WAGSMS Concert

From the Principal Staff Development Day At our recent staff development day on Monday 21 July, we continued the work on our significant re-culturing process to re-imagine what teaching and learning is at North Fremantle Primary School. The process saw our staff analysing summaries of what our community, staff and students valued and aspired learning at North Fremantle Primary School to be. Information from parent surveys and questionnaires, staff workshops and surveys and student focus groups and surveys were used to inform this process. Staff identified trends and commonalities from each summary and have developed a common framework for learning at North Fremantle Primary School. This framework is currently in draft form and will be released at some stage this term after further refinement. Staff also began the process to clarify the teaching component of the framework. Once we have developed our teaching and learning framework it will allow us to engage in deeper staff and student conversations about teaching and learning, inform school strategic directions, drive professional learning and development, guide decisions on staffing and resourcing and promote teaching and learning to our community and beyond. To view the community, staff and student summaries that our staff analysed to develop our teaching and learning framework please visit my Principal Blog or see our school notice board. Please note that words that appear larger in the word clouds are keywords that appeared more frequently in each of the information gathering sources (questionnaires, surveys, focus groups etc). Staffing Update In Semester Two Mrs Rochelle Reeves will be the Room 4 classroom teacher from Monday to Thursday. Mrs Belinda Baldey will still be the classroom teacher each Friday. This change in teacher roster will allow Mrs Belinda Baldey to coordinate and deliver a school based intensive reading program in our junior primary area, one session each day from Monday to Thursday. We would also like to extend a warm welcome to new staff members Mrs Marcia Spargo (Room 2 EA) and Mrs Deborah Mutton (Kindy EA). Nationally Consistent Collection of Data for School Students with Disability Our school is part of a national project about students with disability and/or learning difficulties. We have been asked to provide data about the number and learning needs of children at our school. The name of the school and the name of students will not be reported. Information about the different types of needs and the programs and resources the school uses to overcome barriers and support children with special educational needs will be collected. We believe it is important to contribute to this because it will help Governments and the Department of Education

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Our Vision

For all students at North Fremantle Primary School to experience learning that is purposeful, engaging and empowers them to become life long learners.

Our Mission

Through partnerships with parents and the local community, we will provide an inclusive environment in which our students can develop the knowledge skills, understandings and confidence to reach their potential. Email the school administration: NorthFremantlePS@education.wa.edu.au

Email Teachers direct: Room? NorthFremantlePS@education.wa.edu.au (Please insert which room # your child is in)

develop better policies that acknowledge the level of resources needed in schools to meet the needs of students at our school. If you do not want to have your child/ren included in the data collection please notify the front office in writing and we will not include them in the information we provide to the Commonwealth. If you would like to learn more about the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data for School Students with Disability you can visit the website Active After School Communities Program As mentioned in a previous newsletter last term we have been able to continue the Active After School Communities program this semester through our partnership with Notre Dame University. Blake Cheshire, a pre-service teacher studying a Bachelor in Education, majoring in Physical Education will be taking on the role of program coordinator to the end of the year. The program will commence in Week 3 and run to Week 9 of this term. Please note that there will be a change to the days the program will run to every Monday (2.30pm 3.30pm) and Thursday (3.05pm 4.20pm). More information about the program will be sent out this week.

Room 2 - Liz Smith

Welcome back everyone. In the first week of the year I told the students that we would have a party to celebrate 100 days at school; they've been looking forward to it and asking when it would be since then. In addition to the general excitement of a new term they are almost beside themselves that this milestone will finally be celebrated on Friday afternoon. I've arranged for the students to engage in a range of cross-curricular activities and they are welcome to wear party clothes to school that day. On Wednesday, the Pre-primary students acknowledged NAIDOC week by engaging in a various activities celebrating Aborigi-nal arts and creative endeavours. We created our own allegorical stories based on traditional dreamtime tales, made dot-marking woggles - the rainbow serpent from creation stories of the Noongar people, used bush-tucker plants and seeds in counting and pattern-making and traced pictures of native Australian animals. Please continue to bring in family photos for

Mrs. Campbell's art project with renowned author and artist Norma MacDonald. We have a few new faces in Pre-primary this term. One is our new Educational Assistant, Ms. Marcia Spargo who is replacing Candice and will be known to the children as Marcia. The other is Ms Kathy Woollett who is joining our class from Notre Dame University and will be engaged in her final ten-week practicum with our class. Please take the opportunity to introduce yourself and help make them welcome in our community. A reminder that our library day is a Wednesday and children need to return their book each week and bring a library bag to school. Also, that the school day is from 8.45 until 3.05 - please make every attempt not to interrupt teaching sessions.

Room 1 - Lisa Miller

Welcome back everyone. Hope you all had a safe and happy break! This term we have added Wednesday to our Kindy week.

We welcome Miss Deb into our class and look forward to having her as part of our team! This term we are learning all about

Minibeasts and on Wednesday we became Detectives and explored the top playground to find out where they live and how

they live. We found ants, slaters and worms. We will be setting up a Discovery centre in the back of our classroom to display

all the information we discover. Keep you posted!

Room 3 - Bev Lane

Welcome back Room 3. We have been writing about our experiences over

the school holidays.

We will be focussing on skip counting by 2, 5 and 10 over the next few

weeks (this is good to practise in the car!)

We will also be looking at the earth and beyond strand in science in collab-

oration with Room 4.

Two of the students in Room 2 and 3 welcomed baby brothers into their

homes just before the holidays. Congratulations to the Wiltz and Kristensen

families.

Rooms 5 - Brent Snook Welcome back everyone. From the sounds of it everyone in Room Five had an excellent holiday, and some were even lucky enough to escape the cold for a week or two. This term is certainly going to be a busy one in Room Five. We have already well and truly settled back into routine and are looking forward to some ex-citing events to come this term, including our week six assembly. This week in Geography we have been learning

about different types of climates, and their different

characteristics and locations using the world map

below. With partners or in groups of three we

researched information on temperate, dry, tropical

and polar climates. We had to decide what we

thought was the most important information to add

into our climate zone table. We all agree that we

wish our climate was slightly more tropical right

now!

Room 4 - Rochelle Reeves & Belinda Baldey Welcome back to Term 3. Everyone has had a lovely break and we have had some very

exciting and interesting stories of adventures on holiday. Room 4 have started the term with

some exciting work on Space. We have a surprising knowledge of space already and are

looking forward to learning more about our universe.

We have already designed some amazing spaceships

to take us to the moon and worked out what we

would need for the journey ahead. We are continuing

our love of Roald Dahl by reading his book Fantastic

Mr Fox. This term we will again be working on

learning our times tables and the children are keen to

challenge themselves to complete their times tables

ladders.

Room 7 - Chris John

At the start of Term 3 wed like to extend a warm welcome to Miss Paula Schmedje from

Notre Dame University who will be completing her final internship in Room 7 before she

becomes a fully-fledged teacher.

The students have shaken most of the holiday cobwebs out now as theyve started

investigating methods of finding the area of triangles. They are genuinely excited about

exploring the life and times of our NAIDOC week guest Ms Norma Macdonald as part of

our Inspirational unit this term. Theyve come up with interesting conclusions and

questions about Ms Macdonalds eventful and impressive life so far and are keen to spend

time with her next week.

Solomons spaceship Inside Abbeys spaceship

Art NewsMargie Campbell

As part of our NAIDOC activities we will be working with Aboriginal artist and illustrator Norma Macdonald. Many photos have been bought in but there some outstanding, please send yours in if they are outstanding. I need up to four photos, one of your child, and the others may be your child with and an important person or important people in your life. This could be mum, dad, brother, sister, grandma, uncle, pet, whoever. The photos can be from any age. We will be using black and white images so if you have the facility to just photocopy the pictures and bring in the photocopies that

would be best. Otherwise send in the original photos in an envelope as soon as possible, and I will photocopy them.

Here are some fantastic photos from Book week last term.

Richmond PS P&C Quiz Night Friday 1 August

At East Fremantle Football Club

$160 for a table of 8 ($20 each) Please call 9339 5055 to reserve a table or call into the school